THE ESSEX.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 32, 7 February 1891, Page 4

THE ESSEX.

Early this morning the well-known American wooden barque Essex, 630 tons, Captain A. L. Schaube, arrived in port from New York via Dunedin, on another visit to Auckland. She brings part cargo of general American merchandise from New York, including some oil, and about 1,300 sacks of oats from Dunedin. The Essex, which comes in as usual to Messrs Arnold, Cheney and Co., left New York.on September 19th, and arrived at Port Chalmers on January 3rd, after an uneventful passage. She left Dunedin on January 20th again, and had light northerly and N.E. Windthroughout tbe trip up tbe coast.

THE S.S. ROTOKINO. On her first visit to the port of Auckland the Union Steamship Company s new cargosteamer Rotokino arrived in the harbour JoTy rather unexpectedly. She is from Tiii with a full cargo of bananas, raw suear, and sundries, besides some cargo from Melbourne. The Rotokino, a full description of which was published in the S recently, is a substantially-bu.lt, Sart-loeking'steel boat built mainly for the coal and coke * r . ade ™ tween Westporb and Porb Pine (S.A) She registers 2,003 tons gross, her llSenSs being :-L» K th 280**.beam 32fb 6in : depth, 34tt. capaciby is 2,500 tons, her h.p. 135,, andhei speed 11_ knots per hour, on a coal con sumption of 16 tons per day. Captain, U Spinks is in command, Wid has with him the following executive officer, Mr C. Ancell: second officer, MrD.J. Watson ; third officer, Mr Geo. Holford ; rhief engineer. Mr P. Mudie , second engineer, Mr J. Maccall; third engineer,

Mr A. A. Grant; chief steward, Mr J. Ramsay. Mr J. W. Masscy, late of the Arawata and other steamers, is purser, and to him we are indebted for Fiji files and other favours. The Rotokino went across from Melbourne to Fiji, and then left Suva at i 0 a.m. on the kind inst., arriving after a fine passage.